south-east Indonesia

south-east Indonesia – notes from BIJDRAGEN TOT DE TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE. ‘s-Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff.

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Deel 113, pp. 361-379 Rodney Needham : "Kodi Fables". [western Sumba]

pp. 362-364 in the praesence of his wife Randa Pada, Mada Perokonda understood the speech by :-

p.	*animals*
362	"snakes copulating"
363	cockroaches licking coconut-oil from his legs
	emmets eating sugarcane-pulp
364	male goat requaested by female goat to fetch flower from edge of cliff

pp. 364-366 Ndalapo & the monkeys

p. 365 animals successively suggested by Ndalapo’s wife Pati Kaka as source of intestines being cleansed

hen

pig

hound

buffalo

horse

goat

deer

monkey

pp. 368-370 crocodile & monkey

p. 368 crocodile was ridden across river by monkey

cf. vol. 112 (1956), p. 318 [ Old-Javanese] White Crocodile as "Boat-for-the-Steadfast"

p. 370, fn. 15 -- cf. "the story of the monkey and the crocodile in the fourth book of the Pan~catantra."

pp. 370-373 Rua Nedo the orphan

p.
371	ripe bananas were the nourishment for the infant boy Rua Nedo	cf. [Tabaru] bananas as the nourishment for the infant girl (p. 186)
	animals snared by Rua Nedo so as to have them as his assistants	jungle-fowl
		monkey
		wild pig
372	3 kinds of wood identified for Rua Nedo by mosquito	gourd-creeper
		lime tree
		jackfruit tree

pp. 377-378 Nila & his wife

p. 378 while seeking to steal food to accompany octopus-meat, the thieving Nila’s "finger was nipped by the crab."

while battling the Hudra ("a giant octopus" -- DMB; BS—BMB; L), the foot of Heraklees was nipped by a crab (GM 124.e)

Kupe from Raiatea pursued a thieving octopus for 35 days (PM, p. 162)

DMB = http://members.aol.com/biblesci/science/

BS—BMB = http://www.bibleandscience.com/science/dinosaurs.htm

L = http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/genesis1_leviathan.htm

GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.

PM = Jan Knappert : Pacific Mythology: An Encyclopedia Of Myth And Legend. Diamond Books, London, 1995. http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=143

pp. 378-379 the Karendi man called Kuri Karendi

p. 379 "Kuri Karendi forced his way into the pig-pen; but the sow attacked him and tried to bite his genitals".

"Phaia was a female robber, a woman of murderous and unbridled spirit, who dwelt in Krommyon, was called Sow because of her life and manners, and was afterwards slain by Theseus." (LTh 9:1 -- HK)

cf. the sow with the "divine vulva" on Malekula (LB, p. 267)

LTh = Ploutarkhos : Life of Theseus.

HK = http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKrommyon.html

LB = Buffie Johnson : Lady of the Beasts. Inner Traditions, 1994.

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